Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Nicola Musatti wrote: [...] > > What is important to me is to keep your get_initial_data() function > > outside Klass if it's task is non trivial, e.g. it has to interact with > > the OS or a DB. > > why ?
Separating the internal logic of an application from its interactions with the outside world, e.g. retrieval from a file or a database and presentation to a GUI, makes it easier to reuse the logic in different contexts and may help make it possible to use highly generic solutions for those interactions. I'm thinking of code generation or introspection, which may be applied with very limited knowledge of the application logic. In larger projects I find that this separation tends to match the different areas of expertise that are needed: database experts, GUI experts, domain experts, etc. Cheers, Nicola Musatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
